It’s good to be back blogging full-time after a quiet December and a total hiatus the first half of January. Somehow we kept getting a steady number of hits during that period, to the point that we’ll actually be welcoming our 15,000th visitor sometime today! Thanks to everyone for reading!! What you might have missed … More That Was The Week That Was
A series of posts inspired by my recent trip to Europe, scouting a January 2013 travel course on the history of World War I. Today continues a series-within-the-series on how WWI was commemorated. Yesterday I showed the image of an Australian soldier’s gravestone, its epitaph asking “Have I died in vain?” Immediately above those words … More Commemorating World War I: Post-Christian Memory?
In a field outside the Belgian town of Ieper (or Ypres), one comes across a curious but moving sight: a wooden cross, with soccer balls piled at its base. The cross is carved to read: 1914 The Khaki Chums Christmas Truce 1999 85 Years Lest we forget It stands in what used to be No … More Commemorating World War I: “Lest We Forget”
In my über-links post yesterday, I noted how the holiday that honors Martin Luther King, Jr. became an occasion for several writers to invoke King in support of their own positions on a variety of issues. One version of the phenomenon that I didn’t mention came from actor-director George Clooney, speaking about same-sex marriage during … More A Common Moral Inheritance?
A year from now my colleague Sam Mulberry and I will lead a group of twenty Bethel University students on a three-week journey that will take us from London to Paris to Munich, plus a few days on the ground of what was, from August 1914 to November 1918, the Western Front of World War … More In the Footsteps of WWI
A brief update on planning for our colloquium on Pietism at Bethel University, taking place April 20, 2012. In addition to talks by Scot McKnight and Jon Sensbach, we’ll have a roundtable discussion asking whether Pietism provides a “usable past” for churches today. In some ways, this is a reprise of a session at our … More Pietism, Churches, and a “Usable Past”
After being awake for twenty-three hours (thirteen of them on one Delta plane or another), my body decided that it was still on Munich time, so I stumbled out of bed at 4:30, brewed coffee, and started to go through my Google Reader feed — neglected for over two weeks now. I don’t subscribe to … More Those Were The Weeks That Were
Time to strike the set on 2011 here at The Pietist Schoolman. Things will be quiet here for a couple of weeks while Mrs. Pietist Schoolman and I travel to Britain and western Europe. But expect several reflections and photo essays to stem from that trip, as we’ll be scouting museums, memorials, and battlefield sites … More See You in 2012!
So here it is, December 30th, the sixth day of Christmas. And I know what you’re thinking: “Where am I going to find six geese for my true love? *Do geese even lay eggs in late December?” (See end of post for answer.) And adding to the problem, yesterday’s five gold rings didn’t come cheap … More The Sixth Day of Christmas
12/29/11 – For our readers who happen to live in the great Commonwealth of Virginia or are looking for an excuse to travel there… One of my favorite scholar-author-bloggers, historical theologian Roger Olson (also one of the contributors to our Pietist Impulse book) will be speaking on “Pietism and Pentecostalism: Spiritual Cousins or Competitors?” at … More Pietism and Pentecostalism
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